apt-get won't install recommends

[ShadowTek]

I'm trying to use apt-get to install all the packages that go with the new kernel update, which are "recommended" packages, but apt-get keeps saying:

The following packages have been kept back:
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-genericI had assumed that recommended packages were installed by default, but it seemed that this wasn't the case, so I tried using the --install-recommends option, but the result was the same.

What's the problem here?

[Bachstelze]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7499891&postcount=11

In a nutshell, run


sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[ShadowTek]

That did it.
Thanks.